Annotation:Old Aunt Jenny with Her Night-Cap On (1)
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OLD AUNT JENNY WITH HER NIGHT-CAP ON. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; West Virginia, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Bruce Greene learned the tune from Estill Bingham (1899-1990) of Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky, who played it in G Major, although an 'A' major cross-tuned version was played by Kentucky fiddler Lella Todd. Titon (2001) points out that several different tunes go by this title. He recorded Indiana fiddler Clyde Davenport playing a G tune, unrelated to Bingham's Kentucky tune, that he calls "Old Lank Jenny with Her Nightcap On." Sometimes this ditty (in part a common floating verse) is sung to the tunes:
Who's been here since I been gone?
Old Aunt Jenny with her nightcap on.
Source for notated version: Estill Bingham (Pineville, Bell County, Ky., c.1986) [Tition].
Printed sources: Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 111, p. 140.
Recorded sources: Wilson Douglas - "Fiddle Tunes from Central West Virginia." Shanachie Records 6040, Gerry Milnes & Lorraine Lee Hammond - "Hell Up Coal Holler" (1999. Learned from "old Tom Dillon" of Webster County, W.Va.).
See also listing at:
Hear Bingham playing the tune at the Berea Digital Archives, recorded by Bob Butler c. 1986 [1] and at the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]
Hear Bruce Greene, Don Pedi & John Hermann playing the tune at Berea Digital Archives [3]
See/hear a version of Bingham's tune played on youtube.com [4]